[Python-Dev] RE: test_sort.py failure (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Thu Jul 29 06:11:31 CEST 2004

[Tim Peters]

I think I have a fix for this, and will check it in when the tests finish.

It's checked in now.

However, it doesn't fail on my box -- MS is always moving the memory around. So I hope that, before someone rebuilds with the checkin, they temporarily fiddle the test on their box so it fails more often. I expect that setting the list size to 3 instead of 50 will do that. If you set it to 1, the test will never fail.

Ack, I meant that if you set it to 1, the test will always fail, with or without this patch (lt is never called then, so the list never mutates then).

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